BILL NUMBER: AB 69INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Duvall DECEMBER 12, 2008 An act to repeal and add Section 66025 of the Eduction Code, relating to postsecondary education. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 69, as introduced, Duvall. Statewide student fee policy. Existing law provides for a public postsecondary education system in this state. This system includes the University of California, which is administered by the Regents of the University of California, and the California State University, which is administered by the Trustees of the California State University. Existing law authorizes the segments of the public postsecondary education system to charge various fees to their students. This bill would delete a provision that required the systemwide fees and tuition charged to resident undergraduate students at the University of California and the California State University to be reduced in the 1998-99 and 1999-2000 fiscal years. The bill would require, notwithstanding any law, commencing with the 2010-11 fiscal year, the level of mandatory systemwide fees and tuition for undergraduate students at the University of California and the California State University to be set over a 4-year period in order to allow students at these institutions to budget accordingly for the entirety of their education. The bill would provide that the University of California and the California State University have the discretion to establish the set level of mandatory systemwide fees and tuition. The bill would express the intent of the Legislature that the level of student fees for undergraduate students at the University of California and the California State University also be set over a 4-year period. The bill would apply to the University of California only to the extent that the Regents of the University of California act, by resolution, to make its provisions applicable. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 66025 of the Education Code is repealed.66025. (a) Systemwide fees charged to resident undergraduate students at the University of California and the California State University shall be reduced for the 1998-99 fiscal year by 5 percent below the level charged during the 1997-98 fiscal year, and the systemwide fees charged to those students for the 1999-2000 fiscal year shall be reduced by 5 percent below the level charged during the 1998-99 fiscal year. Systemwide education and registration fees charged to resident graduate students at the University of California and the California State University for the 1999-2000 fiscal year shall be reduced by 5 percent below the level charged those resident students for the 1997-98 fiscal year. This subdivision does not apply to resident students pursuing a course of study leading to a professional degree who are subject to a supplemental fee pursuant to the policy of the University of California. (b) No provision of this section shall apply to the University of California except to the extent that the Regents of the University of California, by appropriate resolution, make that provision applicable.SEC. 2. Section 66025 is added to the Education Code, to read: 66025. (a) Notwithstanding any law, commencing with the 2010-11 fiscal year, the level of mandatory systemwide fees and tuition for undergraduate students at the University of California and the California State University shall be set over a four-year period in order to allow students at these institutions to budget accordingly for the entirety of their education. (b) The University of California and the California State University shall have the discretion to establish the set level of fees and tuition established in subdivision (a). (c) It is the intent of the Legislature that the level of student fees for undergraduate students at the University of California and the California State University also be set over a four-year period to allow students to budget accordingly. (d) No provision of this section shall apply to the University of California except to the extent that the Regents of the University of California, by appropriate resolution, make that provision applicable.